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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implicit conviction that war is really a bloody reprise of the class struggle. The only emotion more persuasive than pity that he displays in Two Women is self-pity. When it comes to man's fate-the tragedy that lies too deep for tears-Moravia, the master weeper, refuses to open any wound that a woman's handkerchief cannot staunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Italian with Tears | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Last week, ill with influenza, obviously out of favor with the new master of the Kremlin, Palmiro Togliatti, 65, was sitting out the campaign for Italy's general elections, coming late this month. Luigi Longo, wartime Red partisan organizer, postwar street fighter and a recent visitor to the Kremlin, has taken over as acting party chief. But Communist membership is down from 2,500,000 to 1,700,000; one-fourth of the party's Senators and Deputies have been dropped as unsuitable candidates for reelection; the Communists are having a hard time finding vote-winning issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: What News from the Peasant? | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...plans go agley in a monstrous inversion of his custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club to living room with movie-like ease, confirmed Producer-Director George Schaefer as a Hitchcockian master of the telltale closeup shot, and provided a triumphant finish for Hall of Fame's fifth year as a series of drama spectaculars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...quota for admission to Palestine. They also acted on the principle that blackmail is never paid off, that simply nothing can be gained by negotiating with monsters. First the war must be won, argued the British; then others must sweep up the bits. It fell to Brand, as the master moneychanger in the temple of evil that Hitler had made of Europe, to deal with the bits as he could. When the unconscionable deal collapsed, the Nazis liquidated most of the 1,000,000 Jews up for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Resurrectionist | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Although the present procedure sometimes results in students being assigned to Houses they have not requested, John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot, emphasized that at least 80 per cent of the Freshman class are assigned to the House of their first, second, or third choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Dislike Yale's Plan For House Selections | 4/30/1958 | See Source »

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